She's Come Undone

Lane's office and Margaret signs the form. Miss Lane sense something strangely odd and curiously look at his mother. "Your mother. S-she's appear to be nine months pregnant. I have no records of her remarrying. Sorry to be blunt, but what's really going on?" "Mom, why don't you undress and show us your round stomach. It will prove to Mr. Lane that you're cured and able to safely socialize…

the main character, Janie, in her lifetime. The use of tree symbolism is the most common in the first half of Hurston’s novel starting with how “Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches” (8) In the beginning of the book, we understand that Janie has just been on a journey full of wonderful and terrible things. When Janie arrives home from her journey, her friend Pheoby goes to Janie’s house…

Fortunately it wasn't far, and the walk in the heat shouldn't be too taxing. As soon as they were alone, he rolled his eyes, and let out a theatrical sigh. "That Daisy's so uptight, I keep thinking she's going to explode." His head shook, then his attention perked up, and he laughed. "Well, I guess there's lots of things you don't know about Duane, Honeybunch. That's why you gotta stick around a while." He threw an arm over her shoulder, and turned…

All My Sons is a play written by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is about a troubled American family that lost a son in the war and they were taken to court in a case where the father was almost sent to jail. The key themes are lies and taking responsibility for your actions. It is also about the fact that the past always catches up to you. It came out after the war and its setting was in 1947, two years after the war. This is about the time that American society was in transition,…

Regarded as one of the most powerful female figures in literature, Lady Macbeth stands out far beyond the rest of Shakespeare’s female characters — remarkable for her ambition, boldness, and cruelty. However, these three intense traits contribute to her downfall and eventual suicide. If one was to step back and examine the corpse, the most noticeable feature would be her “wings.” After reading Macbeth’s letter at the beginning of Act I, Scene 5, and learning of the three witches’ prophecies,…

Another rallygoer, Margaret Blair, says, “I like Obama too, but I am especially here because Oprah came with him” (qtd in Marks). Another way that the “Oprah Effect” occurs is through her monthly book club. One month Oprah Winfrey chose the book She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb for her book club. Within weeks, the novel’s sales shot up and 3 million copies were in print to be sold (Zipp). Oprah Winfrey can cause millions of books to fly off the shelves just because she chose the book to read.…

The word jealous defined by the English dictionary is defined as “a feeling or showing envy of someone or their achievements and advantages” and jealousy, which is the noun of the adjective “jealous” has been the main emotion that has been shown in Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer In A Day.” This is a fictional short story, with a very realistic theme, about a girl named Margot. Margot has moved to Venus from Earth, and isn’t too fond of her new home. Margot still has a vivid memory of her native…

This is definitely is not Montgomery, Alabama. Tell me, what would you do of it was? If this turned out to be another Montgomery? Buy a plane ticket.” (Morrison 104) milkman is a person who would run from his problems instead of facing them. “how come it can’t fly no better than a chicken? Milkman asked. Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can’t nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” (Morrison 179) The peacock is a…

For generations, "don't judge a book by its cover" has been a common phrase in teaching children not to use appearance as a factor of identifying other people. The phrase is extremely necessary. How humans perceive each other at first depends entirely on appearance; it is impossible to ignore when making a first impression. Because of this, elements of people like their attractiveness, gender, and race create factors of one's identity, separating them from other humans who fit different…

Guilt is an emotion that the mind doesn’t usually handle very well. There are two types of guilt. The first is the guilt that a person feels for themselves, it can consume ones-self and send the person into a spiral of self-destruction. This guilt can come from when someone tries to better themselves and it falls apart right in front of them. The second type of guilt is the type of guilt that someone has for others. This type guilt is when someone sees the struggle of another and knows that they…